Performances span five Sunday from May 21-June 18, with a tribute to the landmark Magic Mountain Music Festival and a revival of the rock musical Hair on June 10. Early bird discount ends March 31.

The venerable Mountain Play turns 104 this year with a production of the Disney classic Beauty and the Beast, but its organizers are taking the time this summer to celebrate the year it was a spry 54.

In addition to its Jay Manley-directed production of Beauty and the Beast, the Mountain Play will also mark the 50th anniversary of the Summer of Love, specifically the landmark Fantasy Fair and Magic Mountain Music Festival, which drew at least 36,000 people to the Mountain Play's home Cushing Memorial Amphitheatre on June 10-11, 1967. That event, which pre-dated the Monterey International Pop Festival and Woodstock, featured performances from The Doors, The Byrds, Jefferson Airplane, Hugh Masekela, Canned Heat, Dionne Warwick, Country Joe and the Fish and many more.

To mark the occasion, the Mountain Play is putting on its own Magic Mountain Play Music Festival, featuring a cadre of live bands and a concert version of the rock musical Hair, which tellstells the story of the "tribe", a group of politically active, long-haired hippies of the "Age of Aquarius" living a bohemian life in New York City and fighting against the Vietnam War.

Based on the Academy Award-winning animated feature, the stage version of Beauty and the Beast is built around songs written by Alan Menken and the late Howard Ashman along with new songs by Menken and Tim Rice. The original Broadway production ran for more than 13 years and was nominated for nine Tony Awards, including Best Musical. The play tells the saga of Belle, a young woman from a small village, and the Beast, who is really a young prince trapped under the spell of an enchantress.